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dria chat

Have multi-turn conversations with persistent history. Each conversation is stored locally at ~/.dria/chats/ and can be continued later.

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Start a new conversation

dria chat -m qwen3.5:9b "What is Rust?"
This prints the response and a conversation ID (e.g., a1b2c3d4).

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Continue a conversation

Use the conversation ID from above: 
dria chat a1b2c3d4 "Tell me more about ownership"
The full message history is sent with each request, so the model has context from previous turns.

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Read conversation history

dria chat a1b2c3d4

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List all conversations

dria chat list

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Delete a conversation

dria chat delete a1b2c3d4

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System prompts

Set a system prompt when starting a new conversation: 
dria chat -m qwen3.5:9b --system "You are a helpful coding assistant" "How do I read a file in Python?"
The system prompt persists for the entire conversation.

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Piping

echo "explain monads" | dria chat -m qwen3.5:9b

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Options

OptionDescriptionDefault
-m, --model <model>Model to use (required for new conversations)—
--system <prompt>System prompt (new conversations only)—
--no-streamDisable streamingfalse
--jsonOutput raw JSONfalse
--max-tokens <n>Max tokens2048
--temperature <t>Sampling temperature0.7